Elizabeth L’Arrivee is Director of Academic Policy and Compliance and a member of the Faculty. She works in the fields of political theory and the history of political philosophy, and she has published on Plato in one of the leading political theory journals, History of Political Thought. Her book manuscript, “A Precedent of Freedom: The Philosophic Way of Life and Plato’s Republic,” addresses the phenomenology of philosophic conversion.
She has taught in the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism’s Lyceum program and the political science department at Clemson University, the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum at Colgate University, and the Masters of Arts in American History and Government program at Ashland University. She earned her PhD in political science at the University of Notre Dame, and her BA Hons degree at the University of Winnipeg in philosophy. She was the gold medalist in philosophy at U of W; the Canadian committee selectee for the Commonwealth Scholarship; and was awarded three Earhart Foundation Fellowships. She was also a Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization in Clinton, NY.
Her husband, Rob L’Arrivee, is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Furman University. They live in Greenville, SC, where they homeschool their three children.
HUM 101: Classical Epic and Tragedy - Fall 2024
HUM 201: Medieval Literature and Culture - Spring 2025
COM 101: Elements of Writing - Fall 2024
COM 201: Rhetoric and Speech - Spring 2025
THEO 101: Sacred Scripture - Fall 2024
THEO 201: Catholic Doctrine - Spring 2025
LAT 101: Latin I - Spring 2025
SCI 101: The Foundations of Science - Spring 2025
ART 101: Sacred Art - Fall 2024
MATH 101: Euclidean Geometry - Fall 2024